BEET SUGAR. 



Sugar from the Sugar Beet. 



WE think it hardly worth while to repeat what 

 was said as to the advantages of the intro- 

 duction of the sugar beet into the United 

 States, but to simply assert that it is the only possible 

 plant which can supply the North with sugar, when it 

 be once taken hold of by our farmers, and tillers in 

 general. The results at Portland and Wilmington were 

 satisfactory, and proved beyond a doubt that if the 

 supply of beets had been sufficient, the supposed fail- 

 ure of the beet sugar enterprise would no longer have 

 been considered. On the other hand, excellent sugar 

 was made, and sold on the market with the same ease 

 as any of the imported. The factory at Alvarado not 

 only has been a success, but the stockholders received 

 last year a dividend, which was the first declared by 

 any American beet sugar factory. 



In Canada several new establishments have been 

 organized, and are being built by experienced hands. 

 These will be worked by competent men. The farmers 

 are there interested in the subject, and success is 

 assured ; consequently the prospect of the final estab- 

 lishment of the sugar beet industry in America has 

 never appeared more favorable. Would it not be well 

 for all interested in the good of the country to exert 

 themselves in aid of a plausible cause rather than 

 in a scheme originally theoretical, and which has 

 remained so ? The sugar beet, and the manufacture 

 of sugar therefrom, does not depend, in the Northern 



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